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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Woman Standing Beside a Plum Tree

Woman Standing Beside a Plum Tree (c. 1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".

Beginning in the 1930s and 1970s, respectively, the works of Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi were submitted to a re-evaluation, and these two are now counted among the masters of their art. Thus, from Kunisada alone was withheld, for a long time, the acknowledgment which is due to him. With a few exceptions, such as actor portraits (yakusha-e) and portraits of beautiful women (bijin-ga), at the beginning of his career, and some series of large-size actor head-portraits near the end, it was thought that he had produced only inferior works. It was not until the early 1990s, with the appearance of Jan van Doesburg's overview of the artistic development of Kunisada, and Sebastian Izzard's extensive study of his work, that this picture began to change, with Kunisada more clearly revealed as one of the "giants" of the Japanese print that he was.

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Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige (1859)

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Actors in the Roles of Toriyama Shūsaku and Uba Akishino (1853)

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Actors in the Roles of Shimada Shigesaburō, Kugyō ama jitsuwa Takao and Sakingo Yorikane under Cherry Blossoms (circa 1850)

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Act V of series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer, with the characters Hayano Kanpei (Shigenji), his wife Okaru, Onosada Kurō and Farmer Yoichibei (1854)

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The Actor Ichimura Kakitsu in a Female Role Representing the Second Month (circa 1840)

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Four Actors in the Roles of Natsume Shirosaburō, Ishidō Unemenosuke, Katsuragi, and Kijin Omatsu (1851)

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Fujiwara no Tokihira and Toneri Matsuōmaru from the Play Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami (mid-19th century)

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Musashibo Benkei Kneeling by a Plum Tree

Musashibo Benkei Kneeling by a Plum Tree (c. mid or late 1810s)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Woman Diver Combing her Hair

Woman Diver Combing her Hair (1786-1864)

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Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.3

Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.3 (1850)

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